Appleby, in Lincolnshire; and at Hathersage, Derbyshire, a fylfot occurs on a church bell in the initial G of the legend Gloria in Excelsis Deo, 1617.
The manner in which the fylfot was employed proves that it certainly had a symbolic signification.
The conclusion is evident that the fylfot was a symbol before the swarming-off of the Aryan hordes.
If the fylfot is a detached intersection of the meander pattern, why did not the Egyptians hit on it?
Professor Goodyear points out that the fylfot is associated on Cyprian and Rhodian pottery with the goose (Fig.
But this, after all, may prove to be nothing more than that the Greeks noticed that the fylfot occurred in certain varieties of the meander pattern which had been arrived at from quite a different source.
This occurrence of the fylfot in these patterns was quite accidental; it would be better to say that a fylfot design could be picked out from these patterns rather than to suggest that it was inherent in them.
In certain symbolic combinations the fylfot alternates with the representation of the sun.
He gives to the Turanian races all the mound buildings, as well as the fylfot or mystic cross, and he looks in Central India for the discovery of some remains that will give us the secret of the origin of the Indo-Aryan style.
Mitre of Thomas à Becket at Sens, showing the Scandinavian Fylfot Cross (thirteenth century).
The Fylfot is in the form of a Greek cross with each arm continuing at right angles.
He says:--"I have remarked that the fylfot is sometimes described as being formed of four gammas conjoined in the centre.
On Scandinavian coins, as well as those of Gaul, the fylfotcross appears, as it also does on those of Syracuse, Corinth, and Chalcedon.
This form of fylfot is not uncommon in early examples, and even on a very ancient specimen of Chinese porcelain it occurs at the angles of the pattern--it is the ordinary fylfot, with the angles curved or rounded.
Take the ancient Gaulish coins, for instance, and the fylfot and ordinary Greek cross abound; take the ancient British coins of the age long prior to Christianity, and the same thing occurs.
The same authority says that: "the only sign approaching the fylfot in Egyptian hieroglyphics .
I would insert here that it was only when the present investigation was almost completed, that my attention was arrested by a reference in Professor Wilson's work, already cited, to a short article on the Fylfot and the Futhorc tir by H.
Mr. Greg says:[164] "In Egypt thefylfot does not occur.
In the north of Europe it became the Fylfotor Crutched cross.
He remarks: From these accounts it would appear that the fylfot is a mystical ornament, not only adopted among Christians from primitive times, but used, as if prophetically, for centuries before the coming of our Lord.
Waring[163] says: The only sign approaching the fylfot in Egyptian hieroglyphics that we have met is shown in fig.
Here again we find the fylfot and cross-pattee spoken of as the same symbol, and as being emblematic of the reproductive principles, in which view of its meaning Dr.
The use of Fylfot is confined to comparatively few persons in Great Britain and, possibly, Scandinavia.
It is, I believe, generally admitted or supposed that the fylfot is of early Aryan origin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fylfot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amulet; charm; fetish; hoodoo; mascot; phylactery; scarab; swastika; talisman; voodoo
